Notes

Animal Collective
Lux Frágil
Lisbon, Portugal
May 28, 2008 (Wednesday)
Support Slot: Atlas Sound

*16bit*

Taper: j.mart (stutter [at] sapo [dot] pt)
Source: DPA4061's > Church Audio ST-9100 (~+9dB, no HPF) > M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 (1/4'' TRS, L, WAV 24bit/48kHz)
Location: FOB DFC. Mics in HRTF (6,5ft).
Mastering: USB 2.0 > Adobe Audition 3.0 (HPF [55Hz -18dB/octave], hardlimiting in clapping sections, BSF on crowd noises) > Steinberg Wavelab v5.01b (EQ'ing, compression, loudness maximization, normalize to -0.3dB Peak, dither with Apogee UV22HR to 16bit and resample to 44.1kHz, fades) > CDWav 1.95 > Foobar 2000 (FLAC 8)


Tracklist:
------ CD-A ------
01- The Dancer
02- Daily Routine
03- House (Material Things)
04- Lion In A Coma
05- Peacebone
06- Fireworks > Essplode > Fireworks
07- Walk Alone With You
08- Leaf House
09- Chocolate Girl
10- Comfy In Nautica
11- Brother Sport / encore
12- Who Could Win A Rabbit?
13- Grass

TRT: 01h:36m:39s


Notes: Animal Collective at Lux, my first time seeing them. First of all, what a ridiculous excuse for a venue they played in. A dark, claustrophobic, bassy cave, with air conditioner from hell to detract you from enjoying the show, making you wish you were outside instead (and it was pouring that night). I had the AC unit right above my head, so this recording has an unusually high noise floor, easily masked by the *painfully loud* P.A. levels during the songs, courtesy of the sound tech for the evening, which I will refer to as "The Butcher". I forgot my earplugs for the evening, leaving me with a buzz in my ears for a couple of days after the show. The recording itself is awesome. This is a perfect example of the potential a audience recording has, if the crowd can STFU throughout the whole show. Everybody seemed to hate the show... to a portuguese crowd, it's all about "artist interaction", "abrigados", and portuguese flag-waving, while music is a simple accessory. I've enjoyed it, even though I was starting to get very uncomfortable at the end, thanks to "The Butcher". They also played one brand new song, adding bonus "awesome points" to the recording (track #4). Thanks to "guyanakoolai" at Dime for giving me the working title. Great stereo image, very nice sound quality, and a quiet crowd. I'm damn proud of this recording, considering the atrocious room where they played. I was clueless on most of the setlist, so I'd like to thank "thierryhenry" at ts.com, for helping filling in the gaps. "In Lux, the air conditioner doesn't blow... It sucks".


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-j.mart
2008/07/05